Overview

• Leonid Pasechnik, Kremlin-appointed head of the Luhansk People’s Republic, announced on July 1 that the entire region is now “100 percent” under Moscow’s control.
• This marks the first full administrative claim over a Ukrainian region by Russia since its 2014 annexation of Crimea.
• Kyiv denounces the annexations as illegal and vows to reclaim all occupied territories, including Donbas, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea.
• Russia revived a Soviet-era Yenisey combat train in Donbas to boost frontline logistics and reconnaissance.
• Pro-Moscow officials say Russian forces seized the border village of Dachnoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and the United States has paused some weapons deliveries to Ukraine.